YouTube and Spike Jonze team up for Music in 2013 project

American director, producer, screenwriter and actor Spike Jonze has appeared in a YouTube video introducing a new project he's working on with the company.

The music themed project, which wants to know users favourite songs, videos and artists of 2013, has kicked off with the YouTube video featuring Jonze in a bid to crowd source the relevant information.

The 1'16" video ask the YouTube community to send in videos detailing their favourite artists and videos from 2013, as well as the ones they hate. Jonze invites users to "dance it, recreate it for us in any way, send it to us and in a few weeks we'll get back to you with what we're working on."

To take part videos should be entitled "Hi Spike" and submitted before Monday 12 August.